Report: Comics Sales had their best year ever in 2018 - 0 views
www.comicsbeat.com/d-their-best-year-ever-in-2019
comics sales figures charts statistics publishers ICV2
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For the first time, however, comcis represent less than half the comcis market, when digital and crowdfunding are factored in.
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Reports that comics are dying are total horseshit. • These numbers are still only what Avengers: Endgame made in a week or so.
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Sales in the book channel, which includes chain bookstores, mass merchants, major online retailers, and Scholastic Book Fairs, were up by double digits, with sales of kids graphic novels the biggest factor.
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Sales of all three formats, comics, graphic novels, and digital, grew in 2018, with graphic novels leading the way, followed at some distance by digital and comics.
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We’ve added a new category, “Other” to our channel breakdown. “Other” includes the Newsstand (periodical sales through specialty retail and mass merchant chains) and Crowdfunding (Kickstarter, etc.) channels. This year, those two channels each accounted for roughly half of the “Other” category.